WindRelay Turns Android Phones Into Fake Payment Terminals for Remote Card Fraud

A newly identified Android malware family, tracked as WindRelay, is being used alongside the SpyNote remote-access trojan to convert victims’ phones into rogue contactless-card readers and enable real-time, card-present fraud. Group-IB’s investigation centres on a 13-minute fraud call in which an attacker impersonating a bank employee convinced a victim to install a malicious Android app. […]

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